Akron Children’s, CareSource to launch ACO
Dubbed the Akron Children's Health Collaborative, the pediatric ACO will focus on improving care for the approximately 100,000 children in Ohio covered by Medicaid whose benefits are managed by CareSource.
Ohio hospital execs: Pediatrics has an ‘unlimited supply’ of unsolved clinical problems
Commercializing new products in pediatrics comes with many challenges — among them that children make up a small percentage of the population but have very specialized needs. Hospitals, foundations and academic institutions in Ohio have really prioritized pediatric innovation over the past several years — but more on that in a separate post. Leaders at […]
Reducing Clinical and Staff Burnout with AI Automation
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Akron Children’s to provide specialty care at MetroHealth
Doctors from Akron Children's Hospital will begin providing specialty pediatric care at MetroHealth System's main Cleveland campus in January. Akron Children's specialists will focus on the areas of pediatric cardiology, gastroenterology, cancer and blood disorders, and critical care.
Akron Children’s Hospital buying nursery at Summa Health
Akron Children’s Hospital is finalizing a deal to own and operate the special-care nursery at Summa Health System’s Akron City Hospital. The boards from the two hospitals are expected to approve the deal in separate meetings Thursday. Once approved, Akron Children’s will take over the 21-bed unit for premature and critically ill newborns on Jan. […]
Akron Children’s hires CIO; moves ahead with electronic records
Akron Children’s Hospital has hired a chief information officer to oversee information technology for its growing system. Tom Ogg comes to Akron Children’s from Oakwood Healthcare Systems in Dearborn, Michigan where he was corporate director and chief technology officer. The Oakwood system includes four acute teaching hospitals and 40 primary care/specialty care sites. Prior to […]
Akron Children’s Hospital acquires Allergy & Asthma Center of Northeast Ohio
In another move to relieve its itch for expansion, Akron Children’s Hospital has acquired a busy allergy practice. The pediatric hospital this month purchased the Allergy & Asthma Center of Northeast Ohio, which includes three allergy and immunology specialists. Drs. Rajeev Kishore, Ravi Karnani and Nancy Wasserbauer Kingston will continue to be located in the […]
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Transforming Patient Care: The Role of AI-Powered Assistants
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Ohio nurse could help solve problems with feeding tube connectors
The way Carrie Gavriloff sees it, you should never judge a tube by its color. When the education coordinator of nursing products for Akron Children’s Hospital heard about an international effort to improve the safety of tube-feeding supplies, she challenged the concept of using color-coded items. If nurses or other caregivers rely on color alone, […]
Akron Children’s Hospital expands outpatient surgery services in eastern Ohio
Akron Children’s Hospital is investing $7 million to bring outpatient surgery services to the Youngstown-Warren area. The pediatric hospital recently started construction and renovation of a 14,000-square-foot surgery department on the Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley campus in the Youngstown suburb of Boardman. When the unit opens in October, it will be the only dedicated […]
Akron Children’s promotes new chief nursing officer
Akron Children’s Hospital has appointed a former nursing director to chief nursing officer. Lisa Aurilio, who’s worked at Akron Children’s since 2004, will take over the chief nursing officer role from Grace Wakulchik, who last month was promoted to chief operating officer. Aurilio’s appointment is effective as of June 7. Akron Children’s operates a 253-bed […]
Akron Children’s Hospital appoints ex-nurse as COO
Akron Children’s Hospital has appointed a longtime employee and former nurse as its new chief operating officer. Grace Wakulchik, who started her career with Akron Children’s in 1992 and had been chief nursing officer since 2003, will take over the COO role from Mark Watson, according to a statement from the hospital. Watson will take […]
The Funding Model for Cancer Innovation is Broken — We Can Fix It
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Austen BioInnovation Institute lands three medical innovators
The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron has landed three medical innovators to head its centers for medical device development, integrated health care education and community health improvement. The new vice presidents also will lead collaborative efforts across the institute’s operating partners on initiatives that focus on patient-centered innovation and commercialization in biomaterials and medicine. The […]
Akron Children’s Hospital part of diabetes DiaPrevent study
AKRON — Akron Children’s Hospital is participating in the third phase of the international DiaPrevent study evaluating the effectiveness of a vaccine to prevent further progression of Type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes, in newly-diagnosed patients. Jessica Richiutti recently learned she’s a Type 1 diabetic. Her disease causes her immune system to attack […]
Ohio medical community reacts to health care reform
Whether they’re for the historic health-reform bill or against it, local health-care and business leaders agree big changes likely are coming as a result. Some portions of the legislation could go into effect in as soon as three months, while others will take until 2019 to be fully implemented. While many of the details still […]
Akron Children’s Hospital promotes finance chief
Akron Children’s Hospital has promoted its interim chief financial officer to the full-time role. Michael Trainer had served as the hospital’s interim CFO for the previous five months. He joined Akron Children’s in 2008 as a vice president, responsible for financial reporting and other related matters, according to a statement from the hospital. A certified […]
Night Read (Ohio): Lowe's chooses Cleveland Clinic for heart care. Model?
Lowe's Companies Inc. looked at what it was paying for heart treatments across the country and didn't like what it saw, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. So the home-improvement retailer went shopping, choosing the Cleveland Clinic. Could this practice become a model for health care reform?